… sorry! Where credit’s DUE!

The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

Our Mediocre Bytes reader would know that when we point out those very frequent and often very silly little mistakes TV news bulletins make in those little news strips (once known as chyrons) across the bottom of the screens, our main bitch is that no-one ever seems bothered to fix them.

But not our clearly-now-properly-funded national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

MB rarely delivers bouquets rather than brickbats but hats off to Aunty for fixing this little strap that was missing a crucial word just on Thursday’s edition of News Breakfast!

What’s a missing “to” between friends, hey? Australia seeks TO shore up fuel supplies! Does sound better,

But look what happened soon after!

So, well done, Aunty. And we won’t be churlish enough to mention that our “soon after” fix was a little sarcastic. The correct news strap appeared on the ABC News Breakfast show the following day, Friday!

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This is not a regular task of Mediocre Bytes or even its more serious sibling Media Glass House but our friends at The Bug HQ’s Arse-Licker of the Month hub have asked us to urge journalists nationwide to consider sending in fresh (if that’s the word) entries for the uncoveted April trophy.

You see, our putrid ALOTM prize barrel has not heard a solid plop since Newscorpse mastheads went rabid over recent days in highlighting the call by Tony Abbott for our brave men and women in uniform to spill their blood on Iranian soil to show how much Australia loves every single thing Donald Trump is doing to achieve world pieces.

And, fair enough. Efforts like this splash from The Daily Torygraph would appear to strongly suggest that the Janet Albrechtsen ALOTM trophy might already be in safe hands, but you’ve got to be in it to win it, right? So please don’t be daunted. Squeeze out an entry now!

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